“One cannot escape from the effects of one's past karma. But if a person lives a prayerful life, he gets off with only the prick of a thorn in the leg where he was to suffer from a deep cut.”

— Sarada Devi

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Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853–1920

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